Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 2.10-14

Simplicius

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• Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred directi... Lees meer

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

J O Urmson, Paul Lettinck

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• Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the ori... Lees meer

Priscian: Answers to King Khosroes of Persia

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• Priscian of Lydia was one of the Athenian philosophers who took refuge in 531 AD with King Khosroes I of Persia, after the Christian Emperor Justinian... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 6

David Konstan

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• Book Six of Aristotle's Physics , which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent... Lees meer

Ammonius: On Aristotle on Interpretation 10-14

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• This is the final part of the translation in this series of Ammonius' commentary on Aristotle "On Interpretation." This is the only commentary written... Lees meer

Porphyry

Porphyry

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• Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. Wh... Lees meer

Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 5-8

Themistius

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• Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristot... Lees meer

Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.1-8

Philoponus

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• Aristotle's Posterior Analytics elaborates for the first time in the history of Western philosophy the notions of science and the requirements for the... Lees meer

Simplicius

Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan

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• '[Simplicius'] moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in the library of nations, as a classic book, most excellently adapted to direct the wil... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 3.1-7

Simplicius

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• The subject of Aristotle's On the Heavens , Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist below the heavens. Book 3, in c... Lees meer

Philoponus

Philoponus

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• In On The Soul 2.1-6, Aristotle differs from Plato in his account of the soul, by tying it to the body. The soul is the life-manifesting capacities th... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14

J O Urmson

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• This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the ch... Lees meer

Proclus: On Plato Cratylus

Proclus

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• Proclus' commentary on Plato's Cratylus is the only ancient commentary on this work to have survived, and is illuminating in two particular respects. ... Lees meer

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.10-14

Philoponus

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• Philoponus' commentary on the last part of Aristotle's Physics Book 4 does not offer major alternatives to Aristotle's science, as did his commentary ... Lees meer

Proclus: On Providence

Proclus

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• 'The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the interlocking wheels and the particular beings are like t... Lees meer

Philoponus

Philoponus

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• This is one of the most interesting of all post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical texts, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Chris... Lees meer

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.14-22

Ian Mueller

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• The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-22 is a very important text, being the main ancient commentary with chap... Lees meer

Philoponus: On Aristotle on Coming-To-Be and Perishing 1.1-5

C J F Williams

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• The first five chapters of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione distinguish creation and destruction from mere qualitative change and from growth... Lees meer

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3

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• Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, i.e. the exercise for philosophical debates between a questioner and a respondent. Alexander takes the... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9

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• Simplicius' greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher start... Lees meer

Themistius

Robert B Todd

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• Themistius ran his philosophical school in Constantinople in the middle of the fourth century A.D. His paraphrases of Aristotle's writings are unlike ... Lees meer

'Philoponus'

W Charlton

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• In On the Soul 3.1-8, Aristotle first discusses the functions common to all five senses, such as self-awareness, and then moves on to Imagination and ... Lees meer

Simplicius

J O Urmson

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• Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whol... Lees meer

Themistius

Themistius

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• Physics Book 4 is one of Aristotle's most interesting works, discussing place, time and vacuum. Themistius was a fourth-century AD orator and essayist... Lees meer